On Wednesday 21st March 1945, the RAF’s 140 Wing of De Havilland Mosquito FB.VI fighter bombers, with an escort of Mustangs, attacked the Shellhus in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Shellhus was the HQ for the Gestapo…
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45: ‘Pegs’ the Two-Seat Hawker Hurricane with Hurricane Heritage
Hurricane Heritage has the incredible job of operating the world’s only two-seat Hawker Hurricane, BE505 ‘Pegs’. Starting life as a Canadian Car and Foundry-built Mark XII with the RCAF serial AG287, the aircraft was converted…
44: 100 Years of Civil Aviation with Ben Skipper
Civil aviation is a vast undertaking and one that kept me in and out of trouble for 20 years of my working life. Author Ben Skipper has taken on the task of looking at the…
43: The RAF Museum with CEO Maggie Appleton
The RAF Museum sites at Hendon in London and RAF Cosford in the Midlands are home to a collection that tells the century-old story of the RAF. It is where my obsession with the Hawker…
42: Flying B-17s with the 390th Bomb Group with Col Richard Bushong
Every Thursday, Col. Richard Bushong heads over to the 390th Memorial Museum and holds court under the nose of the museum’s B-17 Flying Fortress and answers questions for all the visitors who approach him. Dick…
41: The 390th Memorial Museum with Bill Buckingham
The 390th Memorial Museum is a museum within the Pima Air and Space Museum dedicated to the memory of the men of the 390th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force who were based at…
40: Empire Flying Boats at War Part 3 with Phil Vabre
As the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour, their forces raced south towards Australia. The evacuation towards Australia would prove costly for the Empire Class flying boats of Qantas. In part 3 of our look at the…
39: Empire Flying Boats at War Part 2 with Phil Vabre
Continuing the story of the Empire Class flying boat, Phil Vabre returns to tell us about how Qantas were able to continue operating services in the Far East as the war in Europe started to…
38: Flying the F-105 in Vietnam with Maj Gen Russ Violett
Maj Gen Russ Violett (Rtd) had a 30-year career with the USAF, flying multiple types, including the North American F-100 Super Sabre (in which he had a 2-minute flight before punching out!) and the fantastic…
37: Classic British Jets Collection Open Day
On the 29th April 2023, the Classic British Jets Collection re-opened their doors at their Buntingthrope base for the first time this side of the pandemic. Dave Thomas and the team kindly invited me up…